whale fall

ENVO:01000140 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT SEEDED

Whale fall is the term used for a whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor. When a whale dies in shallow water, its carcass is typically devoured by scavengers over a relatively short period of time: within several months. However, in deeper water (depths of 2,000 m/6,600 ft or greater), fewer scavenger species exist, and the carcass can provide sustenance for a complex localized ecosystem over periods of decades. — ENVO

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Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Fossil > Whale fall	—

Broader habitats

animal carcass fall ENVO:01000139
Fossil habitatmech:GOLD.88e2b29307

Provenance

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